Conrad Roy's Mom Speaks Out After Michelle Carter Conviction: 'She Knew Exactly What She Was Doing'

by Maya Chung10:56 AM EDT, June 17, 2017

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The mother of the 18-year-old teen who killed himself after his former girlfriend, Michelle Carter, urged him to, spoke out Friday about the conviction.

Carter, 20, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter on Friday in a Massachusetts court.

“I think she needs to be held responsible for her actions ’cause she knew exactly what she was doing,” Lynn Roy said during Friday’s episode of 48 Hours “She knew exactly what she was doing and what she said.”

“She did nothing. She did not call the police or Mr. Roy’s family,” the judge said of Carter during the hearing. “Finally, she did not issue a simple additional instruction [to Roy]: ‘Get out of the truck.'”

Cater was charged as a youthful offender, which means that although she was a minor at the time of the incident, she was charged as an adult.